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Love (respect-empathy-compassion) and passionate sex can rarely survive together on their own for long. Sexual passion requires romance (romantic love), and romance thrives on mystery -- not on honesty and sincerity. Mysterious (i.e. dishonest, insincere, aloof) assholes are, therefore, more successful at scoring women, and keeping their passion alive, than dutiful betas. There's, thus, a trade-off between love (respect-empathy-compassion) and (passionate-) sex.